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i came home from work last night and was told to go look in the play room. my neice took me up there to show me what her daddy found in the yard. my first snake in years and i'm only kinda scared i was bitten by a garter when i was young so this is a step forward for me.

-T

That's a nice looking wandering garter (t.elegans vagrans).

yes, cool gray one!!!!!!! most of the ones I find are green! love the gray ones!

Actually, I think green phases are the best looking ones. Did you see the picture of that blue phase vagrans in The Garter Snakes Evolution and Ecology book? I wonder how rare that color morph is? I've never seen another like it

blue phase? have a green one showing from Utah in my copy of the book...wonder if the color is off in one of our books.....also the vascotanneri in there..gray... My daughter just caught a gray one today on her way home from the swimming pool!!!!!

where was that one found!!!!

castle rock, CO. about a half hour south of denver.

Hi, nice wandering garter! Around castle rock/co springs/ denver probably the most encountered species you will find, I've only evers seen 1 other species and I never got a hold of it for an actual ID.

That snake with the mouse, looks like this one I saw in Montana recently (Missoula). The green one catching the fish I'm told is a Wandering Garter, but this brownish one was in the very immediate vicinity and was twice as large. I wasn't sure if it was the same kind of snake or not.

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0.1 Lampropeltis Getula Floridana
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Another T. e. vagrans (wandering garter). They can get a good size, my female is around a 2 and a half feet...

the pic of the one eating is from last summer in the back yard

Yeah, the vagrans in my copy is a steel blue color with a pale yellow dorsal stripe, while the vascotanneri is a very light sandy brown color. All of the other pictures seemed to be color correct, so I assumed theirs were also.

hmmm.....mine is green..the vascotanneri is gray.....